Patents by Inventor Nahoko Yoshihara

Nahoko Yoshihara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11933310
    Abstract: A main-body casing having an inlet port or an outlet port, a rotatable rotor shaft, and a rotor coupled to the rotor shaft are provided. A recess portion opened toward the inlet port is formed in the rotor and a fastening portion (a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion) of the rotor shaft is exposed to the recess portion. A cover portion, which is fastened to the fastening portion by a cover-portion fixing bolt and covers at least a part of the recess portion, is formed having a container shape and has a reinforcing portion located in a periphery of the fastening portion that prevents deflection by increasing rigidity. The cover portion also has a contact-pressure generating portion which is pressed by fastening to the fastening portion in a fastening direction and causes a contact pressure to be generated in the fastening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yohei Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 11905968
    Abstract: To provide a vacuum pump which separates and constructs an inlet port flange and a casing (outer cylinder) as two components to reduce weight while retaining required strength and which is consequently capable of reducing manufacturing cost. In a vacuum pump, an inlet port flange and a casing (outer cylinder) are separated from each other and constructed as different members. The inlet port flange uses stainless steel as a material thereof and the casing (outer cylinder) use aluminum as a material thereof. The components are fastened to each other by bolts and sealed by an O-ring in order to maintain a vacuum property during assembly of the vacuum pump. Accordingly, a weight of the vacuum pump can be reduced while maintaining strength of the inlet port flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Nahoko Yoshihara, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Yohei Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11898565
    Abstract: A vacuum pump which can prevent lowering of an exhaust performance of the vacuum pump, even if a linked-type thread groove spacer is fastened by a fixing bolt, is provided. The linked-type thread groove spacer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a structure for linking a Siegbahn pump portion and a thread-groove pump portion. When this linked-type thread groove spacer is to be fastened, a countersunk hole is provided in advance in an exhaust channel portion, and the linked-type thread groove spacer is fastened to a base by a fixing bolt. As a result, a head part of the fixing bolt does not protrude to the exhaust channel, and the head part of the fixing bolt does not make resistance against an exhaust gas. Thus, lowering of the exhaust performance of the vacuum pump can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Kengo Saegusa, Nahoko Yoshihara, Yoshinobu Ohtachi
  • Publication number: 20220252074
    Abstract: A main-body casing having an inlet port or an outlet port, a rotatable rotor shaft, and a rotor coupled to the rotor shaft are provided. A recess portion opened toward the inlet port is formed in the rotor and a fastening portion (a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion) of the rotor shaft is exposed to the recess portion. A cover portion, which is fastened to the fastening portion by a cover-portion fixing bolt and covers at least a part of the recess portion, is formed having a container shape and has a reinforcing portion located in a periphery of the fastening portion that prevents deflection by increasing rigidity. The cover portion also has a contact-pressure generating portion which is pressed by fastening to the fastening portion in a fastening direction and causes a contact pressure to be generated in the fastening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20220228594
    Abstract: A vacuum pump which can prevent lowering of an exhaust performance of the vacuum pump, even if a linked-type thread groove spacer is fastened by a fixing bolt, is provided. The linked-type thread groove spacer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a structure for linking a Siegbahn pump portion and a thread-groove pump portion. When this linked-type thread groove spacer is to be fastened, a countersunk hole is provided in advance in an exhaust channel portion, and the linked-type thread groove spacer is fastened to a base by a fixing bolt. As a result, a head part of the fixing bolt does not protrude to the exhaust channel, and the head part of the fixing bolt does not make resistance against an exhaust gas. Thus, lowering of the exhaust performance of the vacuum pump can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo Saegusa, Nahoko Yoshihara, Yoshinobu Ohtachi
  • Publication number: 20220186743
    Abstract: To provide a vacuum pump which separates and constructs an inlet port flange and a casing (outer cylinder) as two components to reduce weight while retaining required strength and which is consequently capable of reducing manufacturing cost. In a vacuum pump, an inlet port flange and a casing (outer cylinder) are separated from each other and constructed as different members. The inlet port flange uses stainless steel as a material thereof and the casing (outer cylinder) use aluminum as a material thereof. The components are fastened to each other by bolts and sealed by an O-ring in order to maintain a vacuum property during assembly of the vacuum pump. Accordingly, a weight of the vacuum pump can be reduced while maintaining strength of the inlet port flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Nahoko Yoshihara, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Yohei Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220145894
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vacuum pump of which a thermal resistance between a heater and a water-cooling tube is high and which has a small number of components. The vacuum pump includes: a main body casing having an intake portion and an exhaust portion of gas; a turbo-molecular pump mechanism portion in which stator blades and rotor blades are formed; and a motor for rotating the rotor blades, wherein the main body casing has a base spacer capable of thermal conduction between a heating spacer portion and a water-cooling spacer portion having been integrally molded, and the base spacer is provided with a boundary portion having been molded such that a cross section thereof assumes a narrow neck shape between the heating spacer portion and the water-cooling spacer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Nahoko Yoshihara, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Yasushi Tateno, Yohei Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11078925
    Abstract: A vacuum pump reduces a stress without reducing the rotation speed of a rotating cylindrical body. In an outlet port-side lower portion of a rotor cylindrical portion included in the vacuum pump, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of an inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion is provided. A lowermost end portion (outlet port-side end portion) of the rotor cylindrical portion is designed longer than a thread groove exhaust element to provide an extending portion. In the extending portion, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of the inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion which is opposed to the thread groove exhaust element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 10823200
    Abstract: A thread groove pump portion, which is an exhaust element, is structured such that a Siegbahn structure is attached onto a cylindrical thread, and such that respective parts are connected to each other at this attachment section. A flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and a flow channel of the cylindrical thread (the thread groove pump portion) are connected to each other so as to substantially form a right angle when viewed from an axis direction of the vacuum pump, thus, the flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and the flow channel of the thread groove pump portion are connected to each other. the length of a compression flow channel of the thread groove pump portion can be increased in a radial direction due to the connected Siegbahn portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Kengo Saegusa, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20190195238
    Abstract: A vacuum pump reduces a stress without reducing the rotation speed of a rotating cylindrical body. In an outlet port-side lower portion of a rotor cylindrical portion included in the vacuum pump, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of an inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion is provided. A lowermost end portion (outlet port-side end portion) of the rotor cylindrical portion is designed longer than a thread groove exhaust element to provide an extending portion. In the extending portion, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of the inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion which is opposed to the thread groove exhaust element is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20180355888
    Abstract: A thread groove pump portion, which is an exhaust element, is structured such that a Siegbahn structure is attached onto a cylindrical thread, and such that respective parts are connected to each other at this attachment section. A flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and a flow channel of the cylindrical thread (the thread groove pump portion) are connected to each other so as to substantially form a right angle when viewed from an axis direction of the vacuum pump, thus, the flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and the flow channel of the thread groove pump portion are connected to each other. the length of a compression flow channel of the thread groove pump portion can be increased in a radial direction due to the connected Siegbahn portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Kengo Saegusa, Nahoko Yoshihara